Directions (Q 1-10): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.

A Planning Commission by any other name will __(1)__ pretty much the same. The government has __(2)__ announced the successor body to the Planning Commission, which had been decommissioned by the Prime Minister halfway __(3)__ his first Independence Day address. It will be called NITI Aayog (meaning policy institution) and is __(4)__ as a think tank that will service both the Centre and the States. Much is made of the new body promotion cooperative __(5)__ as opposed to the top-down approach of the __(6)__ commission. This is much of a muchness. The new body is __(7)__ with, among other things, designing planning at the __(8)__ of the village and monitoring and evaluation of implementation of schemes. Both sound decidedly top-down, rather than of a call to states to __(9)__ in unfettered autonomy. Nor is there anything __(10)__ within this.

1.
a) stink
b) smell
c) have
d) call
e) deserve

2.
a) definitely
b) dubiously
c) completely
d) finally
e) certainly

3.
a) stopped
b) ended
c) through
d) over
e) terminated

4.
a) conceived
b) took
c) destroyed
d) followed
e) felt

5.
a) goodwill
b) federation
c) effort
d) intimacy
e) accord

6.
a) late
b) lost
c) ancient
d) one-time
e) erstwhile

7.
a) helped
b) aided
c) tasked
d) assisted
e) pushed

8.
a) cost
b) part
c) line
d) level
e) verge

9.
a) trust
b) revel
c) anguish
d) level
e) despair

10.
a) wrong
b) faulty
c) right
d) mistake
e) inaccurate